Researchers say that the clear decline of dinosaurs before asteroid may be due to poor fossil records

Researchers say that the clear decline of dinosaurs before asteroid may be due to poor fossil records



The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline, most of them wiped out 66 million years ago before an asteroid, can be explained by the deteriorating fossil records from that time, rather than the actual decreasing dinosaur species, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.